On August 11, 2026, xAI put Grok Bot on the front of its own news stack: AI teammates you give real work to, not another chat box.
The product pitch is blunt. Bots have their own computer. They can sign into apps and websites the way a person would, including tools without a clean API. They finish multi-step jobs and come back when something needs your judgment. xAI says the company already ran internal Bots on sales outbound, marketing, ops, bug reproduction, and more before opening beta.
How Grok Bot differs from chat Grok
Chat Grok answers, drafts, searches, and generates. Grok Bot is framed as a colleague with a desk: parallel Bots, shared context, routines learned by watching you once, and work that keeps running when your laptop is closed. xAI’s FAQ-style line on the product page: Bots have their own computer, so they work inside your tools and run 24/7.
Pricing (official product page)
From x.ai/bot as of this briefing. Confirm live before you buy. Plans are billed through Cursor for the Grok Bot product lanes shown:
| Plan | Price | What the page lists |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor Ultra | $200 / month | Grok Bot’s own computer, sign into tools, routines on a schedule, desktop/mobile, extended AI token limits. |
| Cursor Premium Teams | $120 / seat / month | Everything in Ultra, plus centralized team billing, skill/plugin marketplace, shared analytics, SAML/OIDC SSO. |
| Already on Cursor Ultra or SuperGrok Heavy? | Included | xAI states Grok Bot is included. Sign in with that plan via the bot product flow. |
| Enterprise | Sales / waitlist | Contact sales / enterprise waitlist on the product page. |
Launch post access list: beta for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium on desktop and iOS. Enterprise can join a waitlist.
How to use Grok Bot
- 01 · Check access You need SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, or Cursor Teams Premium (or enterprise path). Free chat Grok alone is not the same product lane.
- 02 · Open the product Start at x.ai/bot. Read the launch note at x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot. X profile for the bot brand: @bot.
- 03 · Download macOS (Apple silicon) download is linked from the product page (early beta build). iOS is listed for the same access tiers. Follow xAI’s download section for other platforms as they open.
- 04 · Create a Bot and give it a job Message it like a teammate. xAI examples: sales outbound, talent, paid media, expenses, product performance, bug reproduction, account health, chief of staff.
- 05 · Teach once, then schedule Show a workflow once. The Bot can save a routine and run it later. Use multi-Bot threads when work should pass between specialists.
- 06 · Keep human approval on money and risk Bots come back when approval is needed. For Canadian operators: CRM, email, and finance logins still need policy. Do not hand secrets to any agent without a review path.
What the xAI team says it is good for
Launch examples include overnight account research and outbound drafts, demo environment prep, CRM hygiene, and account follow-up. The internal story is multi-Bot stacks: a chief of staff Bot with specialists under it, not one overloaded chat.
Alberta / Canada operator take
Grok Bot is a different buying decision from SuperGrok chat or a token API. You are buying always-on computer use inside real tools. That can help small teams punch above headcount. It also raises access control, audit, and “who approved that send” questions. Start with one low-risk lane (research drafts, internal checklists) before CRM writes or customer email at scale.